Day 1 - the beginning

It's Tuesday... I find that I do much better when I begin things on Tuesdays. I quit smoking on Tuesday, March 24, 2010. I am a couple of days short of 10 months smoke free - and I breathing SO much better. But, with not smoking, my taste buds came back alive and after about 4 weeks of not smoking - chocolate tasted AMAZING! So, I've gained 40lbs since then. I've never been a small girl to begin with - but this morning, I tipped the scales at 288.8lbs. I stand on a 5ft 7in frame. There are many names for my condition: fat, x-large, morbidly obese. No matter how you look out it, it's not healthy and my family deserves better then that from me.

Ok, so enough of the formality - here I go...